Clustered computing brings with it many benefits: high
performance, high availability, scalable infrastructure, etc. But
it also brings with it more complexity.

Why?

Well, by its very nature, there are more “moving parts” to
monitor and manage (from physical, virtual and logical hosts) to
clustering software to redundant networking components – the list
goes on. And a cluster that isn’t effectively provisioned and
managed will cause more downtime than the standalone systems it
is designed to improve upon.

When it comes to the database industry, analysts already estimate
that 50% of a typical database’s Total Cost of Ownership is
attributable to staffing and downtime costs. These costs will
only increase if a database cluster is not effectively monitored
and managed.

Monitoring and management has been a major focus in the
development of the …

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Session management has long been a key component of any web
infrastructure – enhancing the user browsing experience through
improved reliability, reduced latency and tighter security.

Increasingly organizations are looking to unlock more value from
session management to further improve user loyalty (i.e. making
the web service more “sticky”) and improve monetization of web
services. There are two distinct developments that offer
the promise of unlocking more value from session data:
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Wikipedia receives between 25,000 and 60,000 page
requests per second, depending on the time of day. Wikimedia
needed to update its infrastructure to handle this huge volume of
traffic and ensure that its systems were reliable, highly
available, and easily scalable. It also wanted to expand its
upload file limit from 20 MB to 100 MB to accommodate rich media
(audio and video) content, but before it could do that it needed
to expand its storage capacity.

Wikipedia receives between 25,000 and 60,000 page
requests per second, depending on the time of day. Wikimedia
needed to update its infrastructure to handle this huge volume of
traffic and ensure that its systems were reliable, highly
available, and easily scalable. It also wanted to expand its
upload file limit from 20 MB to 100 MB to accommodate rich media
(audio and video) content, but before it could do that it needed
to expand its storage capacity.

Wikipedia receives between 25,000 and 60,000 page
requests per second, depending on the time of day. Wikimedia
needed to update its infrastructure to handle this huge volume of
traffic and ensure that its systems were reliable, highly
available, and easily scalable. It also wanted to expand its
upload file limit from 20 MB to 100 MB to accommodate rich media
(audio and video) content, but before it could do that it needed
to expand its storage capacity.

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